2024 Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Associate Degree Schools
4Colleges in the United States
82Associate Degrees
Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology is about average in terms of popularity for associate degrees programs. That is, it ranks #189 out of the 328 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for clinical, counseling & applied psychology students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 82 associate degrees in clinical, counseling & applied psychology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology School for Your Associate Degree
The clinical psychology associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to clinical, counseling & applied psychology students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of clinical, counseling & applied psychology students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Student Debt - How easy is it for clinical, counseling & applied psychology to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized clinical, counseling & applied psychology related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for clinical, counseling & applied psychology students working on their associate degree.
The clinical psychology school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology Associate Degree Schools.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in clinical, counseling & applied psychology.
Top Schools for an Associate in Clinical Psychology
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.